• cavemeat@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    You know, that makes me wonder if someone could figure out the old google search algorithm, and use it to make a new, more useful search engine.

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      1 year ago

      IIRC PageRank was patented, so it’s public, and at this point the patent is surely expired.

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        1 year ago

        A lot of the cost is data storage. Unfortunately, I doubt any party will replace old Google.

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          1 year ago

          Storage isn’t as expensive as it used to be, especially if you were to only store text. I feel like nowadays the main costs would be bandwidth and processing, since there are many more websites out there, and they’re much bigger, full of many more scripts to make sense of.